History of Annual Meetings and Conferences

Rebecca Rushfield, an independent conservator based in New York and a member of CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts, compiled the following list of CAA meetings and conferences from 1911 to the present.

In her chapter in The Eye, the Hand, the Mind, “Uniting the Arts and the Academy,” Julia A. Sienkewicz writes that the Annual Conference “plays an ongoing role in reinforcing and redirecting the identity of the College Art Association. In many ways it is the heart of the organization. For young scholars, reference to the conference evokes anxious memories of job interviews or first presentations. For senior scholars, it means yearly reunions with friends, and a barrage of paper sessions, interviews, and meetings.”